Old-Fashioned Words and Phrases

[Greyson]

Another pearl of wisdom from my mother.....


"Give your soul to God because your ass is mine."

She would say this when it was time to pay the piper for some wrong action I did, said or thought about. :|

[JAGG]

My get up and go, has got up and went.
Good things come to those who wait.
Bless your little pea picking heart.
Smart as a box a rocks.
Running around like a chicken with your head cut off.
Quit fiddle farting around
Quit dilly dalleying.

[Dante]

What in tarnation ?

[msW8ing]

What in tarnation ?

I never did figure out where tarnation is. :|

[Daktari]

Lawks a'mercy

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight.

Put t'wood in'th'ole! (that's 'put the wood in the hole' - shut the door!)

[msW8ing]

If (insert name of stupid friend here) jumped off a bridge would you?
It's just over yonder. (Yonder was always at least a mile walk through the pasture)
How many times do I gotta tell you to (insert chore here) clean out your ears you got taters growing in em?
Kwitcherbellyachin (Quit your belly aching)

[Gemme]

I TOLD Ebon to 'keep his eyes peeled', but we both missed the turn anyway today.

:blink:

[JAGG]

Shit or get off the pot.
I feel like a million bucks
youre just spitting into the wind

[Gentle Tiger]

they don't have 2 nickels to rub together

[Dante]

Heavens to Betsy .........

[Gentle Tiger]

I not me will knock you into next week.

Do you want me to give you something to cry for.

[dixie]

I not me will knock you into next week.

Do you want me to give you something to cry for.

These were two of my mother's favorite phrases when I was growing up. Usually while threatening me with a "switch" from the peach tree outside. lol

[deb_U_taunt]

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

[Gentle Tiger]

knee high to a grasshopper
need to go beat my face. I never use this phrase. lol

[*Anya*]

A dollar to a donut!

Can't see the forest for the trees!

Wipe that smirk off your face!

(or smile, depending on my parents mood)

[Gentle Tiger]

<insert> is about as <insert> as the day is long.

[iambrsf]

"My stomach feels like my throats been cut off"

[tapu]

ice box

i bet somebody's already said 'ice box' tho....

[Gentle Tiger]

knee high to a grasshopper
need to go beat my face. I never use this phrase. lol

Because I received puzzling comments (LOL)

"beat my face" = put on your make up

[JAGG]

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
You woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
6 of one half a dozen of the other.
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

[Anastasia]

OMG! My mother has a million of these things.

You have the attention span of a gnat.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Go pound salt!
<insert name or pronoun, usually 'she'> looks like nine miles of hard road.

[funkyfemme]

"It's colder than a witch's titty out here!!"

My mom has used that since I was a baby child. LOL

[Anastasia]

"It's colder than a witch's titty out here!!"

My mom has used that since I was a baby child. LOL

Along those lines, my dad had a few:

Colder than a well diggers arse.
Useless as tits on a bull.
If only my aunt had balls she would be my uncle. (in response to people saying "if only...")

[Sparkle]

Not the sharpest crayon in the box

Not the brightest bunny

Dumber than a box of rocks

[Library_girl]

Sweatin' like a whore in church
Like trying to stack greased BB's in a corner (impossible task)
Dumber than a box of hammers
Like a dog with a bone (won't let go!)
Catch more flies with honey than vinegar
(Looks) "rode hard and put up wet"
Pretty is, is pretty does

Can you tell I'm from the South?

[Anastasia]

He was all over her like a cheap suit.
On you like white on rice.
He is tighter than a frog's butt and that is waterproof.



And the mom classic, why buy the cow when she gives the milk away for free?

[Starbuck]

Say goodnight, Gracie

[Ms. Meander]

Loggerhead - a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead

at loggerheads - engaged in a disagreement or dispute; quarreling

[Dean Thoreau]

In a New York minute! (that means real fast) :glasses:

[Dean Thoreau]

Fine as frog hair... :glasses:

[Slater]

Davenport (couch)

[Gemme]

they don't have 2 nickels to rub together

You can't get blood from a turnip.

Which leads into....

I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

knee high to a grasshopper
need to go beat my face. I never use this phrase. lol

I heard 'beat my mug' more.

:)

<insert> is about as <insert> as the day is long.

....til the cows come home.

[Ms. Meander]

Davenport (couch)

Nice one!!!

[jelli]

"Well, I swanny."

[funkyfemme]

Fine as frog hair... :glasses:

Ahhhh you beat me to it on this one. Another one of my Mom's favs. :)

[Dean Thoreau]

Time to Red the table

(means clear off the table after supper,people in my fam still say it.....)

[Strappie]

My old boss you to say to everyone that walked in the door and said... How are you today....

He's reply...

If I was any better I'd have to sit on my hands to keep them from clapping!!

I must admit I do use this "quote" on occasion! *lmccao

[Ms. Meander]

My old boss you to say to everyone that walked in the door and said... How are you today....

He's reply...

If I was any better I'd have to sit on my hands to keep them from clapping!!

I must admit I do use this "quote" on occasion! *lmccao


I don't know how "old-fashioned" this is but it is disturbingly hilarious!

[JAGG]

This 1 isn't really old fashion but it made me laugh out loud when I thought of it.
" I'm rubber you're glue, anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you." ;-)

[JoSchmooze]

Pocketbook (purse)....
I always get a ration of sh*t from
friends when I use that one....

[JAGG]

Davenport (couch)

My grandmother called the sofa a davenport. We would mock her and call it a diving board and take off running and dive onto it. When she wasn't watching of course. Which reminds me, don't ever dive face first onto a sofa with those clear plastic covers on them. Always hit shirt or socks first. When you hit face (skin)first you tend to stop way faster than you were expecting to. Don't ask me how I know.;-)

[deathbypoem]

I forgot what I was going to say; must've been a lie.

It's colder than a well diggers ass crack, out here.

"mickey mouse around"

[Daktari]

Cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. Shortened to 'Brass monkey weather.'


Colder than a witch's tit.

Crikey Moses!

Get theeself up th'wood'n 'ill [Translation: get yourself up stairs]

[Kätzchen]

"Up yonder"

"Out on the back 40"
(Riding the property line)

"Keeping company"
(Courting)

"Oh, my stars!"

Or...

"Goodness, Gracious"

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Colder than a witch's tit.


Colder than a witch's tit in a brass brassiere. (My grandma felt the more colorful a saying, the better.)

Birdgit! (My grandma's most succinct saying.)

[homoe]

Icebox

Peddle-pushers

Smitten

[homoe]

Rouge

Pancake Makeup

Dungarees

galoshes

[Hollylane]

Heard today... "Happier than a frog in a mosquito patch!"

[C0LLETTE]

"... please, allow me. If you don't mind, I really would prefer not to go "dutch" ..."

[Bèsame*]

oh I see, said the blind man

[Cin]

My father's favorite sayings -

Jesus H. Christ – (As a kid i assumed H was Christ's middle initial and I asked my father what his middle name was and he said Hallowed. I remember thinking that was an odd name.)

Bob's your uncle

i don't give a flying fuck

why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut

(Apparently, "flying fuck" is a very old expression dating back to about 1800. It originally appeared in a "broadside ballad" called "New Feats of Horsemanship" describing a sex act done on horseback.)

It's like pissin into the ocean to bring in the tide

pissin in the wind

I gotta piss like a race horse

any flies on you they're paying rent

bang a left, bang a right, bang a U-ie- (He was always saying to bang something)

And don't forget to use your directionals.


My mother's favs-

talk a glass eye to sleep - ( I couldn't grasp this as a 5 year old and I would hear “talk a glass Ida asleep” I had an Aunt Ida and I puzzled over the meaning of a glass Ida.)

Why, do you see a crowd around? - (My mother would always say this when I asked what was the matter or what's wrong.)

if you had a half a brain it would be lonely

if you had a half a brain you'd be dangerous

When she'd say this to me, I remember thinking that's stupid, if I had a half a brain I wouldn't be lonely or dangerous, best case scenario I'd be dead.

you smell like a french whore - (My mother would say this when she thought you were wearing too much cologne but to this day she denies saying this to her kids.)

you got a hair across your ass

you chicken shit

bird brain

ah, light dawns on marblehead - (used when someone dense finally gets it, this is pretty much exclusive to parts of Massachusetts, the Boston area, around Marblehead and it has something to do with it being the eastern most point of MA where the sun rises first. My mother loved the saying.)

two peas in a pod

something rotten in denmark

As a kid, I would say between 5 and 8, I took things quite literally. Here's a couple of typical conversation between me and my mother. Or so my mother likes to tell me to illustrate all she had to go through with me.

My mother, glaring at me and my dad, -“the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.”
Me -”How could it, unless the tree was on the top of a high mountain and the fruit rolled all the way down to the bottom or into a valley or something.”

My mother, tired of me and my questions - “Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier dear?” (my mother loves to rhyme)
Me - “I would fall in the water if I did that.”
My mother - “No flies on you.”
Me - “Because I was in the water?”
My mother - “No, because you stated the obvious. I was being sarcastic.”
Me - “So if someone tells you something that doesn't make any sense you shouldn't mention it because it's obvious?”
My mother - “It's a nice day go outside for awhile.”
Me - “It's raining.”
My mother - “Take an umbrella.”
Me - 'Not to state the obvious but you want me in water today.”

[Amulette]

Groovy man
Far out
bitchen

[Smiling]

Rouge

Pancake Makeup

Dungarees

galoshes


I love the word dungarees. Bonus points for that one. :)

lol, how about when they called galoshes "rubbers?" I know I'm being a total juvenile, but I always have to laugh when I hear someone call them that.

[Smiling]

I don't think this qualifies as an old-fashioned expression but I love it when people use the phrase "going postal." it cracks me the hell up and I actively try to work it into conversation as often as possible, lol.

[Gemme]

My father's favorite sayings -

Jesus H. Christ – (As a kid i assumed H was Christ's middle initial and I asked my father what his middle name was and he said Hallowed. I remember thinking that was an odd name.)

Bob's your uncle

i don't give a flying fuck

why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut

(Apparently, "flying fuck" is a very old expression dating back to about 1800. It originally appeared in a "broadside ballad" called "New Feats of Horsemanship" describing a sex act done on horseback.)

It's like pissin into the ocean to bring in the tide

pissin in the wind

I gotta piss like a race horse

any flies on you they're paying rent

bang a left, bang a right, bang a U-ie- (He was always saying to bang something)

And don't forget to use your directionals.


My mother's favs-

talk a glass eye to sleep - ( I couldn't grasp this as a 5 year old and I would hear “talk a glass Ida asleep” I had an Aunt Ida and I puzzled over the meaning of a glass Ida.)

Why, do you see a crowd around? - (My mother would always say this when I asked what was the matter or what's wrong.)

if you had a half a brain it would be lonely

if you had a half a brain you'd be dangerous

When she'd say this to me, I remember thinking that's stupid, if I had a half a brain I wouldn't be lonely or dangerous, best case scenario I'd be dead.

you smell like a french whore - (My mother would say this when she thought you were wearing too much cologne but to this day she denies saying this to her kids.)

you got a hair across your ass

you chicken shit

bird brain

ah, light dawns on marblehead - (used when someone dense finally gets it, this is pretty much exclusive to parts of Massachusetts, the Boston area, around Marblehead and it has something to do with it being the eastern most point of MA where the sun rises first. My mother loved the saying.)

two peas in a pod

something rotten in denmark

As a kid, I would say between 5 and 8, I took things quite literally. Here's a couple of typical conversation between me and my mother. Or so my mother likes to tell me to illustrate all she had to go through with me.

My mother, glaring at me and my dad, -“the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.”
Me -”How could it, unless the tree was on the top of a high mountain and the fruit rolled all the way down to the bottom or into a valley or something.”

My mother, tired of me and my questions - “Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier dear?” (my mother loves to rhyme)
Me - “I would fall in the water if I did that.”
My mother - “No flies on you.”
Me - “Because I was in the water?”
My mother - “No, because you stated the obvious. I was being sarcastic.”
Me - “So if someone tells you something that doesn't make any sense you shouldn't mention it because it's obvious?”
My mother - “It's a nice day go outside for awhile.”
Me - “It's raining.”
My mother - “Take an umbrella.”
Me - 'Not to state the obvious but you want me in water today.”

OMG, I say and/or have said sooooo many of these phrases.

We might be related.

:blink:

[Cin]

OMG, I say and/or have said sooooo many of these phrases.

We might be related.

:blink:

Related. Now that would be wicked pissah. :gimmehug:

How about zit zat case closed?

Or a cock and bull story?

Does a bear shit in the woods?
Is the pope catholic?

I wonder if phrases have like an expiration date that makes them old fashioned. Some of the ones I've mentioned my parents said and I still say. I wonder when they become old fashioned?

Like maybe poppycock is old fashioned? Although it's a word my mouth enjoys saying.

[Bèsame*]

close the door! Were you born in a barn?

[JDeere]

Shit Fire and Save The Matches- my gram used to say that all the time

[TruTexan]

My cousins would say this if you stood in front of the tv...........

""You're not made of glass" "Your daddy wasn't a glass blower" ..so move your ass outta the way of the tv"

[femmeandstrong]

my mother always said ( to indicate her bill paying struggles ) -
"you can't take money from a naked man's pocket "

lol ahuh :sunglass:

[WildHorses]

Grandma said, " you cannot get blood from a turnip" and "for cryin' in the bucket"

[Gemme]

Related. Now that would be wicked pissah. :gimmehug:

How about zit zat case closed?

Or a cock and bull story?

Does a bear shit in the woods?
Is the pope catholic?

I wonder if phrases have like an expiration date that makes them old fashioned. Some of the ones I've mentioned my parents said and I still say. I wonder when they become old fashioned?

Like maybe poppycock is old fashioned? Although it's a word my mouth enjoys saying.

I love poppycock and it's food now too, so it's obviously exempt from any old-fashioned deletion scheme.

With the exception of the zit zat one, yes. I am very familiar with the rest.

:blink:

My cousins would say this if you stood in front of the tv...........

""You're not made of glass" "Your daddy wasn't a glass blower" ..so move your ass outta the way of the tv"

I used to get 'you make a better door than a window'.

[Cin]

my mother always said ( to indicate her bill paying struggles ) -
"you can't take money from a naked man's pocket "

lol ahuh :sunglass:

Never heard that one.

To indicate her bill paying struggles my mother always said you can't get blood from a stone but I like your mother's better.

[The JD]

Piss on you! You look better wet.

[Cin]

[QUOTE=Gemme;979967]I love poppycock and it's food now too

Poppycock is a food!! I guess it hasn't made it to Montreal yet. The market has to be such as to make it worth the price of repackaging in both French and English for distribution in Canada. Or maybe I just haven't seen it. I must confess food shopping, truthfully shopping in general, isn't my favorite way to spend my time so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that I just missed it.

[Daniela]

I love poppycock and it's food now too, so it's obviously exempt from any old-fashioned deletion scheme.

With the exception of the zit zat one, yes. I am very familiar with the rest.

:blink:



I used to get 'you make a better door than a window'.

[QUOTE=Gemme;979967]I love poppycock and it's food now too

Poppycock is a food!! I guess it hasn't made it to Montreal yet. The market has to be such as to make it worth the price of repackaging in both French and English for distribution in Canada. Or maybe I just haven't seen it. I must confess food shopping, truthfully shopping in general, isn't my favorite way to spend my time so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that I just missed it.

Are ya'll talking about this poppycock?
http://www.bridgesdesign.net/bridgesdesign_2010/food_packaging/7848_ite_Poppycock.jpg

I'm not sure if it can be considered "food" in the nutritional sense. :cheesy: I love it, anyway.

[Cin]

Are ya'll talking about this poppycock?
http://www.bridgesdesign.net/bridgesdesign_2010/food_packaging/7848_ite_Poppycock.jpg

I'm not sure if it can be considered "food" in the nutritional sense. :cheesy: I love it, anyway.

oh that does look delicious. I don't think we have them in Montreal though. Next time we go over the border I want all the kinds except the chocolate lovers. I dislike chocolate except as an actual piece of chocolate. Then i'm all over that. And that's no poppycock.

[Gemme]

Piss on you! You look better wet.

Don't we all.

:eyebrow:



Are ya'll talking about this poppycock?
http://www.bridgesdesign.net/bridgesdesign_2010/food_packaging/7848_ite_Poppycock.jpg

I'm not sure if it can be considered "food" in the nutritional sense. :cheesy: I love it, anyway.

Yes! That's what I was referring to.

It looks, smells and tastes a whole lot better than bullshit, doesn't it? I'm glad the meaning has shifted a bit.

:cheesy:

[JoSchmooze]

Being a child of Texans:
"You don't even have a horse in that race"

Along the lines of "fuck me running"
"Fuck me running backwards"

:jester:

[CherryWine]

"You're so full of shit, your eyes are brown."

"It's hotter than blue blazes."

"It's hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock."

"Whew, she looks rode hard and put up wet!"

[job]

I heard so many sayings when I was a kid...many have been stated already. The three that were most often said to me personally, though would be:
1. Don't put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow.
2. You're like a bull in a china cupboard.
3. Give ya a toothpick you'd tear the house down.
Uhh...i was a rambunctious child.

[Cin]

2. You're like a bull in a china cupboard.

I was told I was like a bull in a china shop. I was suspicious never having seen an entire shop devoted to china, but apparently they exist. However, a bull in a china cupboard, now that would be tight... and impressive. Havoc would indeed be wreaked.

[anotherbutch]

Shit fire and save matches!

You could tear up an anvil in a sandpile!

Spare the rod... Spoil the child!

I'll beat you so hard and fast it'll look like you're helping me!

[Cin]

I'll beat you so hard and fast it'll look like you're helping me!

LOL!

My father used to say to us kids "I'll beat you within an inch of your life and I don't care if my measurements are off cause I can make ten more just like you." Which wasn't true because my mother had like 8 miscarriages. It was a big deal when she actually brought a baby home from the hospital so it's not like he really had any to spare. But I sure wasn't going to be the one to tell him that.

and his other favorite "i brought you into this world and I can take you out of it."

[Daniela]

:bucktooth: I just found out that the saying I always thought was "Pearls on swine" is actually "Pearls before swine." lol

[Cin]

:bucktooth: I just found out that the saying I always thought was "Pearls on swine" is actually "Pearls before swine." lol

It could work that way too though, like maybe another version of lipstick on a pig.

[cinnamongrrl]

It could work that way too though, like maybe another version of lipstick on a pig.

My gram used that phrase "lipstick on a pig". I use it to this day. Frequently about a house I clean. I could be there a week straight and it'd still be a hot mess...

[clay]

two I grew up hearing......."it's colder than a gold digger's azz in the Klondikes".................."it is cold enough to freeze brass balls off a monkey"........neither of which I have ever seen......:blink:

[cinnamongrrl]

My mother says "colder than a witch's tit" but I don't under stand the reference...

[MsTinkerbelly]

I haven't read through the whole thread, so excuse me if this is a repeat.

My Dad never wore a watch, so when asked what time it was, he would day..."it's a hair past a freckle", while looking intently at his bare arm.

[JDeere]

I haven't read through the whole thread, so excuse me if this is a repeat.

My Dad never wore a watch, so when asked what time it was, he would day..."it's a hair past a freckle", while looking intently at his bare arm.

I heard from my grandparents sometimes " half past a monkey's ass" when I asked what time it was!

[homoe]

Jukebox:listening:

[afemmenatalie]

growing up outside the U.S., we would push a "grocery wagon" and not a "cart" at the grocery store! Not sure if that is due to a difference in regional "talk", or an old-fashioned expression.

[TruTexan]

It's colder than a well digger's ass is one I heard often when I was younger.

And here's one for a whooping ....Go get me a switch so I can whoop your ass with it.

[Cin]

Here's one my mother used to say a lot:

If you think (fill in the blank), you've got another think coming.

Also
If you walk around with a hammer everything starts to look like a nail.

[cinnamongrrl]

The bees knees!

I love that saying...

I also used whippersnapper in a sentence yesterday...lol

[Ascot]

When I was born, my parents were both in grad school, so a lot of the childcare responsibilities landed on my maternal grandmother. She was a brilliant and nutty character who had me singing things like "There's a place in France where they don't wear any pants" when I was 3, much to the consternation of my mother who was much more proper. I'm sure that's a large part of the reason she taught me such things. She had some quirky expressions that still make me laugh today when I think about them.

If she was particularly irked about something, she would say, "Well that just fries my ice!" It always conjured up weird a visual of ice cubes skittering around in a cast-iron skillet.

Rather than simply remind me to go to the bathroom before we left the house, she would say "Go shed a tear for Garfield." Something assassination related, presumably.

If she thought someone was just being lazy and lolling about, she was known to ask, "What are you doing? Posing for animal crackers?"

[Gemme]

When I was born, my parents were both in grad school, so a lot of the childcare responsibilities landed on my maternal grandmother. She was a brilliant and nutty character who had me singing things like "There's a place in France where they don't wear any pants" when I was 3, much to the consternation of my mother who was much more proper. I'm sure that's a large part of the reason she taught me such things. She had some quirky expressions that still make me laugh today when I think about them.

If she was particularly irked about something, she would say, "Well that just fries my ice!" It always conjured up weird a visual of ice cubes skittering around in a cast-iron skillet.

Rather than simply remind me to go to the bathroom before we left the house, she would say "Go shed a tear for Garfield." Something assassination related, presumably.

If she thought someone was just being lazy and lolling about, she was known to ask, "What are you doing? Posing for animal crackers?"

I haven't heard any of these but I dare say I love them just a little bit.

[MysticOceansFL]

Nifty .....................

[homoe]

"Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels"

[Ascot]

I haven't heard any of these but I dare say I love them just a little bit.

I don't know that anyone else has every heard any of these. Grammie was quite unique and I'm sure these gems were all her own. Glad you like them.

[kittygrrl]

(she has) a bee in her bonnet
(kisses) sweeter then wine
Love is not love, which alters when it's alteration finds..

[Gemme]

Love is not love, which alters when it's alteration finds..

What???

:blink:

[homoe]

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

[Bèsame*]

bitchin'....

[puddin']

tight as a tick (on eatin' way too much)

i don't give a rats ass

a leopard can't change it's spots

[Degotoga]

"They don't have sense enough to poor piss out of a boot with the directions written on the heel."

[ksrainbow]

"finer than the hair on a snakes a**"

ks-

[Gemme]

"finer than the hair on a snakes a**"

ks-

That's new. I've heard 'finer than frog hair' though.

I've used these in the past 2 days:

...righter than rain aka righter'n rain

....shit or get off the pot

[JDeere]

Colder then a witches tit in a brass bra!

[homoe]

Pocketbook ( I believe it's now called a purse or handbag?)

[cinnamongrrl]

Pocketbook ( I believe it's now called a purse or handbag?)

I still say pocketbook... I hear my nana's Irish accent when I do lol

"Doesn't amount to a hill of beans!"

I used this today while attempting to clean windows that are fixed in place. Made the parts of the window I did wash look out of place

[CherryWine]

"Doesn't amount to a hill of beans!"

I used this today while attempting to clean windows that are fixed in place. Made the parts of the window I did wash look out of place

My mom says that a lot. She also says "What's that got to do with the price of onions?" when someone says something irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

[Gemme]

My mom says that a lot. She also says "What's that got to do with the price of onions?" when someone says something irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

"What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?"

Heard it often growing up.

[Venus007]

Ken meaning know or understand for example "It is beyond my ken"
I grew up hearing it all the time but I haven't heard anyone say it in years

[JDeere]

As Sure as hell or high water

[puddin']

a fly in the ointment.

beck and call

chock-a-block

make no bones about

[Smiling]

For crying out loud!
For the "umpteenth" time....

[homoe]

Hanky Panky

[Gemme]

horizontal mambo

[homoe]

Moo Moos ( I believe it was sort of similar to a flowery print dress but more causal)

[Gemme]

Moo Moos ( I believe it was sort of similar to a flowery print dress but more causal)

Moo moos are still used today, especially in the South. Sometimes they are called house dresses.

[Smiling]

"What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?"

Heard it often growing up.

"...digging a hole to China...."

and

"Clean your plate; there are starving children in China!"

[gotoseagrl]

Bridges ... Water under the bridge, Cross that bridge when we get to it, burned bridges.

[gotoseagrl]

Last night my brother texted me that something was as funny "as all get out" ... and i thought ... he's only 30 something, really? Old man.

[Smiling]

Brassieres, bosoms, and unmentionables, lol.

I love the expression "unmentionables." lol, and it makes me laugh when someone calls breasts bosoms, but I'm not sure why.

And calling someone's derrière a keister, lmao. I love that one, too.

[homoe]

Dye Job~~~~

I believe it's now called "coloring one's hair!

[Tierney]

Do not make me turn this car around.


Then my Nona's..

We had to walk ALL the way up that hill, in 10 feet of snow to go to school.. and you are complaining about having to stand at a bus stop?

[Smiling]

lol, what about "idle hands are the devil's workshop" and

"mind your own beeswax"

[Smiling]

lol, tomfoolery, hoodlums, and hooliganism.

[homoe]

shenanigans too, cant forget that one!

[Smiling]

shenanigans too, cant forget that one!

lol, you're right! I love shenanigans!

[Gemme]

Do not make me turn this car around.


Then my Nona's..

We had to walk ALL the way up that hill, in 10 feet of snow to go to school.. and you are complaining about having to stand at a bus stop?

Barefoot! Both ways! With cardboard soles!

:blink:

[Tierney]

Barefoot! Both ways! With cardboard soles!

:blink:


Ha, Ha. Yessss, I forgot about the barefoot. :|

[Orema]

Now you're cooking with gas (http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25897/origin-of-the-phrase-now-were-cooking-with). (My mama often said this.)

Goodnight, nurse (http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrTccwwEaNViC4ACQ1HnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByaDNhc2J xBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkAw--/RV=2/RE=1436778929/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.chacha.com%2fquestion%2fwhat-is-the-origin-of-the-saying-%2527good-night-nurse%2527/RK=0/RS=gkAW.1JFK82q1YKi2fqSwghtxhI-).

[homoe]

Until the last dog is hung:|

It referred to staying at an event right up to the end~

[Gemme]

Oh, I don't like that one. It's like 'there's more than one way to skin a cat'. Or 'sweat like a pig' which is completely inaccurate anyway because pigs literally do not sweat....hence all the rolling in mud. Why do we have to bring innocent animals into our colorful speech? I wonder who started all that mess.

[homoe]

Boodle (which is defined as money, especially that gained or spent illegally or improperly) which was used by us in the UP of Mi as money stashed away and spend however one chooses to spend it!

[homoe]

tomfoolery:superfunny:

[Gemme]

Shit-eating grin.

[homoe]

Smitten:flowers:

[homoe]

Nifty - ( something that is great, excellent):hangloose:

Spiffy - (An elegant appearance)

[Humanesque]

Mashuganas

[C0LLETTE]

please and thank you

[cinnamongrrl]

please and thank you

and excuse me/pardon me...although I hear that more down here

[homoe]

YES so true COLLETTE and Cinn so true indeed:praying:

[homoe]

squire

escort a woman about:sunglass:

[storyspinner70]

I used to say "by the by" all the time and anytime I mention "shoehorning" something into place I am apparently dating myself...lmao

[storyspinner70]

Moo moos are still used today, especially in the South. Sometimes they are called house dresses.

We do still use those...lmao...they're often interchangable with Caftans, too...lol, though i always learned them as muumuus...my mom still wears them.

[storyspinner70]

lol, tomfoolery, hoodlums, and hooliganism.

those and shenanigans are making a comeback i think...ah, nostalgia...gotta love it...lol

[homoe]

squire

escort a woman about:sunglass:

I had seen squire on an old episode of Seinfeld and kept forgetting to post it!

[homoe]

davenport : It's now called either couch or sofa

[knight]

oblige noblesse

[cork1961]

Lollygag, Dilly-dally

[Orema]

Fish rots from the head down.

(Heard this while listening to a report on Chris Christie and Bridge-gate.)

[Lyte]

This is a good one!

oblige noblesse

[Lyte]

And on "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy." :p


I had seen squire on an old episode of Seinfeld and kept forgetting to post it!

[~ocean]

spiffy.........